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Clinical Dementia Rating

The Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) is a clinician-administered scale that assesses severity of dementia on a 0–3 scale based on interview with the patient and an informed collateral source (e.g., family member). Developed by Morris and colleagues at Washington University School of Medicine, the CDR has become the reference standard for dementia severity assessment in clinical practice and research, particularly for staging Alzheimer's disease.

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Clinical Dementia Rating Scale
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  • Morris, J. C. (1993). The Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR): current version and scoring rules. Neurology, 43(11), 2412–2414. · DOI 10.1212/wnl.43.11.2412-a
  • McKhann, G., Drachman, D., Folstein, M., Katzman, R., Price, D., & Stadlan, E. M. (1984). Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: report of the NINCDS-ADRDA Work Group under the auspices of Department of Health and Human Services Task Force on Alzheimer's Disease. Neurology, 34(7), 939–944. · DOI 10.1212/WNL.34.7.939
  • Hugonot-Diener, L., Ritter-Hrncirik, C., & Amieva, H. (2008). Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) in epidemiology and dementia screening. Neuropsychology, 22(4), 529–534. · URL
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